How do you feel about the government passing a law to give police and media control over what you say or post on social media? Pretty soon it will be illegal to say and write anything that anybody considers offensive. No lines will be drawn in the sand, no guidelines
Aunty Helen’s talking parrot has flown home to perch, no doubt replete with some new and clever French phrases to show off, and happy with her strut upon the ‘World’ stage; À chaque fou plaît sa marotte. (Every fool is happy in their own folly). Now that she’s
This is from the Friday working group on MagicTalk radio. I figured I might as well get this up as a followup to the last couple of videos concerning New Zealand police officers checking in on citizens based on their online postings. I reckon it’s good for people to
New video from Carlton McCoy: Politicians and commentators discuss upcoming Hate Speech legislation.
Shock! Horror! White supremacists are rampant at Auckland University. How do we know? Because the university’s Students’ Association says so. But the fascist Vice Chancellor is denying it, which of course is proof that it’s true. quote. Auckland University’s Vice Chancellor maintains students’ claims of a growing
Leighton: The fact that the hate crime law review is fast tracking following the Christchurch shootings um, is a very big danger. As… as we said at the very beginning, um… “never waste a good crisis.” And that is what they are doing. Now I read a letter in today’
Leighton: From the Free Speech Coalition is Stephen Franks, hi! Stephen: Gidday. Leighton: And as the saying goes, welcome to the podcast. I want to quote from what you published with regard to this campaign. “Never waste a good crisis” is attributed to Churchill, referring to the political activist’s
Good morning; Class. Welcome to Media Ethics.101, where today we will be discussing hate-speech which is a very important topic given nice Mr Little’s crusade to ensure publishing unkind things in the future will get people in a lot more trouble than before. In today’s example
“When you see it, you know it” Jacinda Ardern said in response to the question “how do you define hate speech that leads to violence?”. She says the Human Rights Act has a gap and fails to protect us from “religious hate speech”. As a Christian of many years, I’
The terror attack on Christchurch has ignited the debate about hate speech and censorship. Quote. The terrorist attacks on two Christchurch mosques, in which 50 people were killed, have brought questions of whether New Zealand is doing enough to legislate against racial and religiously-motivated attacks to the fore. For
By Juliet Moses, an Auckland-based lawyer First published on Shalom.Kiwi April 28, 2019 Republished with permission For a first-time list MP who made it into parliament by the skin of her teeth, and is in a minor party that maybe is or isn?t in government (depending
Lindsay Perigo believes that New Zealand has become an Orwellian Police state. I don’t think that we are there yet, but we are certainly well on our way. We are following in the footsteps of countries like the UK who now criminalise little old ladies for liking or sharing
Hobson’s Pledge Trust hobsonspledge.nz Banning Don Brash from a university is one thing but suggesting that advocacy of arguments made by New Zealanders such as him should be made illegal is a whole lot worse. It was precisely these sorts of threats that sparked the creation of the
James I of England was a gifted scholar and lover of knowledge, fluent in four languages. By the time he was fourteen, he encouraged learning and the advancement of science. Under his patronage William Harvey laid the foundations of modern anatomy with his revolutionary theory of blood circulation overturning 1500
By Dieuwe de Boer Rightminds This is the third episode of the Right Minds Podcast, hosted by Dieuwe de Boer and Jesse Anderson and recorded on the evening of Thursday 25th April, 2019, due to Easter and ANZAC holidays. In this episode, we discuss: * The vanishing Capital Gains Tax and
